Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 7 October 2021

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapters 15 and 16
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 16
National Treasury Management Agency - Financial Statements 2020

9:30 am

Mr. Ciarán Breen:

In cerebral palsy cases, when we took it over originally, the period of time was roughly six years and we have brought that down to probably just less than two years, where we can. Clearly, we are dependent on lots of things happening in that period, such as getting reports from experts, which can take time, and there is the legal process itself. That is the kind of timescale we have narrowed it to. If we had the pre-action protocol, that could be narrowed, we think, to the equivalent period in the UK, which is about 12 months or 11 months.